Deseret Evening News | 1908-12-02 | Page 7 | In Honor of Lincoln

IX lX OK OJ lias ho that it Jr Ney and Arizona are admitted to lO ono pf of the new noll states might bo ho named 1 In honor l mor dt 1 el t President and lib orator This is a Tho ith of T next yell year I will be tho 1 Oth anniversary oC or his birth Mexico very prop properly erly be given ghon statehood und and Lincoln Tl in III honor of that anniversary ArIzona loo might cry properly bo 10 given Iel at nt tho samo t no and the emancipation of the two territories would be a fitting monument to w the mal mail whoso was devoted to the thc pre pf pr the th Union Bul thoro h ro is I no good reason for tOl changing han oC of Arizona is Itself both distinctive vo anil anit pretty prett prettA A hit n lawyer has nindo he thc suggestion that the th Philippine l Is Iso ho lie renamed r the thc oln Islands Island BU thai th L doNi not seem to meet with favor f vol lh is no nb good for fur I 1 1 not lIol eon oyon be bo I by b this country c and olId andt olIdIe Ie t they thoy should be disposed of io to any country ounh or independent tho 1110 name would have han no meaning to tot t l I Lincoln needs ri lio special monument Is on thol of t history and Will f 11 is long as us th H But the ho renaming bf o after ft r him would be e very cry appropriate ll iO since tho thon n larne n of tit that territory really all to the I e people now except except that I t L Is reminder l W of a II lit in which widell all tf Q glory glorys s hardly on Ji RUt our side sJ lc though it resulted III n u a groat Arent Increase of o territory t or at the cost el t of or and 13 OO lives